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ERP Aids Your Sustainability Initiatives

QAD

The sustainability trend goes beyond businesses that may have positioned themselves as “green” primarily for marketing benefits. In other examples, you’ll find ERP provides the necessary insights and metrics, like OEE , to enhance production execution. Consider the effects of excess inventory and unnecessary shipments.

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Supply Chain Roundtable Series: Getting Demand Forecasting Right 

Unleashed

That means analysing the market, global and local economics, your competition, and the latest industry trends before focusing on internal factors such as revenue and profit margins. Protecting profit margins from ALC inflation ALC (Average Landed Cost) is a crucial metric in demand forecasting and inventory valuation.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Three trends are clear: The industries are not making equal progress. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. Aligning metrics matters.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Going green is more than a popular trend; it’s a legitimate goal for many businesses. metric tons of carbon emissions from contributing to global warming in 2015. This is $10 billion more than the previous year and a continuation of a 6-year upward trend for the company. Wal-Mart Profits from Conservation.

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News Round-Up: 3 Businesses Prioritizing a Green Supply Chain

RFgen

Going green is more than a popular trend; it’s a legitimate goal for many businesses. metric tons of carbon emissions from contributing to global warming in 2015. This is $10 billion more than the previous year and a continuation of a 6-year upward trend for the company. Wal-Mart Profits from Conservation.

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Building Outside-In Processes

Supply Chain Shaman

I am half-way through a spring speaking tour that will wrap-up in June with a speech in South Africa and Peru. It pains me to see nine out of ten companies are stuck at the critical intersection of cost and inventory turns. Track the trends. This work is important to me. I am not quite sure. It evolved over time.

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How Can We Heal the Global Supply Chain?

Supply Chain Shaman

In the last six months, in my travels, I have presented to supply chain teams in China, Belgium, France, Germany, Peru, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. I explain that I am researching the trends, and trying to discover/figure-out what drives balance sheet results. Inventory Turns.